View showing coke wagons with works in background

Description View showing coke wagons with works in background

Date 1965

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 646189

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Gartsherrie Iron Works, North Lanarkshire This was the largest iron-smelting works in Scotland from the 1840s until the rebuilding of Clyde Iron Works in the 1930s and 1940s. It was founded in 1828 by William Baird & Co, and quickly pirated J B Neilson's hot-blast process. By the early 1840s there were 16 furnaces in the works. This shows two of the railway wagons used to take coke to the works from the company's coke ovens near Kilsyth until about 1958, when new ovens were built at Gartsherrie. These wagons were adapted for coke carrying by adding the three top rows of planks to elderly coal wagons. The works had in 1965 only this blast furnace, built by Bairds and Scottish Steels Ltd to replace the last of the 19th-century, open-topped blast furnaces. Like its predecessors it produced foundry grades of iron. The works closed in 1968, and was speedily dismantled, the furnace going to Pakistan for use there. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/14/29

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